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Super fluffy 8-year-old Pekingese Wild Thang wins 2024 World's Ugliest Dog contest

5:46pm June 22, 2024

by Chloe Veltman

This is the first victory for the canine, a five-time competitor in the annual event, held in the northern California city of Petaluma.

Zsa Zsa, an English bulldog, won the World's Ugliest Dog competition this weekend in Petaluma, Calif. She's seen here with her owner, Megan Brainard of Minnesota.

National

Ooh Zsa Zsa: Rescued Bulldog Wins Ugliest Dog Contest

1:37pm June 25, 2018

by Bill Chappell

Maybe it was the lolling tongue or the upward-thrusting chin or the drool. Whatever her secret, Zsa Zsa the English bulldog worked her magic and took home the title.

Zindler expresses shock at her pup's confident plop — in the middle of the competition.

National

PHOTOS: Meet Martha, World's Ugliest Dog

3:05pm June 24, 2017

by Colin Dwyer

At least that's the assessment of judges in Petaluma, Calif., where the mastiff took the crown at this year's World's Ugliest Dog Contest. And she defeated some formidable pupposition (also pictured).

Jason Wurtz holds his dog SweePee Rambo after winning the 2016 World's Ugliest Dog contest at the Sonoma-Marin Fair on June 24 in Petaluma, Calif. Wurtz tells The Guardian there were no oozing sores on his prize-winning, unprepossessing pooch.

The World's Ugliest Dog And The Case Of The Libelous Oozing Sore

1:50pm June 29, 2016

by Camila Domonoske

There was something slimy in the town of Petaluma, Calif. — and The Guardian broke the story wide open. Bug-eyed, incontinent, bent-backed SweePee Rambo is ugly as all get-out, but she is pus-free.